The bar makes sense for people who look at the keyboard to type, otherwise it makes no sense. Where it might make sense is if it were still physical keys but yo

The bar makes sense for people who look at the keyboard to type, otherwise it makes no sense. Where it might make sense is if it were still physical keys but you could customize the letters etc on them and generally just change how they function. Which is a concept that has been around since 2004ish. To me this is a cheap way for Apple to have a touchscreen without having a touchscreen as the actual screen. Unless they show some crazy functionality, the I don't get it. Even the "touch ID" thing is sort of a "why?" for me when you have Windows Hello using your face as the password.